wine users - May 2010 - Installing Steam

Hello all,

I've run into a problem installing Steam. I'm running Suse 11.2, KDE,
and have successfully installed it before on a previous incarnation of this
system. I use dolphin to navigate to the download folder, start a terminal, then
as root (su), I type "wine start SteamInstall.msi". Everything seems
to go well until after the "updating platform" message. At that point,
Steam's window just never shows up, even though it appears in the taskbar.
Nothing happens when I click on it in the task bar.

If I just shut it down at this point by right clicking on the taskbar (I
can't do anything else that I know of), it doesn't install. It does not
appear in kickoff application launcher. I tried to start it from a terminal
(wine start steam.exe) to no effect. I may not be doing that right though.

A further problem may actually be at the root of this one. The first time I
tried to install steam I had to cancel. It didn't do a clean job of removing
the folder (Steam) and I can't find it using dolphin. So when I next tried
to install, it told me it could only install in an empty folder. So I installed
it in Steam1. When that didn't work I tried again, uninstalling first. I hit
the same problem again though, and now have 4 useless folders in the c:/program
files  directory that I can't access and don't know how  delete.

Any suggestions on how to proceed? Where are the directories from the failed
installations and is there any way I can access them from dolphin so I can
remove them? Thank you very much in advance.

Subsidiarity

At first, I would try installing it in a fresh new Wine-Prefix.

At least for openSUSE 11.2 (and some other), it's set on "Gold"
status in the [Arrow] appDB
(http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=1163), so,
I would guess it should work...

Thanks for the replies. I forgot about not running wine as root. I'm just
used to thinking that to install something you need to be root, but that's
not true of wine. I think I managed to clear up the mess and it appears now that
steam is installed and will work. I couldn't install it using the command
eps gave me, but the ususal "wine start SteamInstall.msi" worked. I
think this is what appeared in the terminal with the command eps gave me:

err:msi:copy_package_to_temp failed to copy package
L"SteamInstall.exe"
fixme:msi:MSI_OpenDatabaseW open failed r = 80030002 for
L"SteamInstall.exe"

I also had to install a wine repositorie in YaST to get a recent version. I
couldn't get it to work with the version I had access to before. Thanks
again.

Subsidiarity